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Signed with chop embossed over signature |
| Artist’s name: |
Jerry Garcia, deceased |
| Signature: |
Artist’s signature is NOT present on any of the multiple impressions
constituting the described Fine Art Multiple Limited Edition |
| Labels: |
Below the lower edge of the image, informational labeling has
been applied by hand using a carbon lead pencil. The information includes: unique number of the impression and the total number of authorized impressions (example: 001/925); the title of the image appears in the center, with the artist’s name on the right. The placement of an embossed seal, also known as a “chop” placed over the artist’s name states authorization by the singular heir and Registered Copyright Claimant, Clifford “Tiff” Garcia. |
| Description: |
Fine Art Multiple Limited Edition reproduction of Artist’s oil painting. |
| Process: |
Each impression was created from 14 hand etched Mylar Masters. No photomechanical or photographic were involved. Known as ‘direct’ lithography, the medium used for each impression receives the ink color associated with each master by direct contact with each master. Therefore, the medium for each impression is run through the press once for each master, which in this edition totals 14 times. |
| Masters: |
The masters, described above, were made by S2 Atelier, Las Vegas NV
11 ½ years after the death of the artist, in November of 2006. |
| Printed: |
November 2006 by S2 Atelier, Las Vegas, NV using a rare 19th
Century Maroni/Viorin press which produced lithographs for
the Parisian and Montmartre artists of the period. Over 100 years
old, the press continues to operate using all it’s original factory
parts. The only modification has been to replace the original
steam powered engine with an electric motor. |
| Edition: |
925 lithographs, numbered 1 through 925
40 Artist’s Proofs (A/P) number A/P 1 through A/P 40
10 Printer’s Proofs (P/P) numbered P/P 1 through P/P 10 |
| Warranty: |
No additional prints, proofs or impressions of this image
have been made from the Master. |
| Medium: |
Impressions made on 24” x 30” Rives BFK 100% French rag, hand torn, deckled edges. Image size is 19” x 25 1/2 |
| Masters: |
All masters for this edition were destroyed on completion of the
Edition in December 2006. |
| Certificate: |
The signature of Clifford “Tiff” Garcia on this Certificate of
Authenticity, as well as the embossed ‘chop’ placed over the signature,
gives witness, declaring his brother, Jerry Garcia, the sole creator of
the original art.
“In Chair” is one of a series of five oil paintings created by
Jerry Garcia as part of his training at the San Francisco Art
Institute in the late 1950s, studying under Elmer Bischoff,
one of the Masters of the Bay Area Figurative Art period
(1950-1964).
Though his visual art impulse was overtaken by his later
musical career, Garcia produced drawings and cartoons
throughout his life. The oil paintings and his study with
Bischoff, offer a clue to the well springs of Garcia’s later
computer graphic work, and to the tension between abstract
and figurative expression present in his whole creative output.
At the Art Institute, then called the California School of Fine Arts,
Jerry was studying the graphic arts with a focused passion and
commitment, in a milieu and at a time when the masterpieces of
Kesey, Kerouac and the beat poets, were at the forefront of Bay Area culture.
“..(Bischoff) deacon of West Coast painters, justly celebrated for his
lifelong navigation of the ‘tightrope’ between abstract painting’s sensual materiality and the ethical implications of a figurative art.”
Caroline Jones,
Associate Professor of the History of Art, Stanford University |
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This document should be considered as an asset and regarded accordingly. It has been a common practice to store a Certificate of Authenticity inside an envelope taped to the back of the frame. Common sense would point out the total loss of the art work if it should become a victim of theft: Both the work itself, and it’s documentation are lost. Storing this Certificate separately greatly reduces the market value of a piece of art, as well as retaining a record establishing factual data as evidence of identification and ownership.
Please protect this document securely. If this Certificate of Authenticity is lost or stolen, it cannot be replaced.
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